FRANK ZAPPA - Joe's Garage Acts II & III (Zappa Records SRZ-2-1502) USA 1979 gatefold 2LP-set
vinyl: mint- | cover: VG++ (Gatefold sleeve with four-page printed insert.)

Joe's Garage is a 1979 rock opera by Frank Zappa. Zappa self-deprecatingly described the album as a "stupid little story about how the government is going to do away with music."^[1] Originally released as two separate studio albums onZappa Records, the project was later remastered and reissued as a triple albumbox set, Joe's Garage, Acts I, II & III, in 1987. The story is told by a character identified as the "Central Scrutinizer" narrating the story of Joe, an average adolescent male, who forms a garage rock band, has unsatisfying relationships with women, gives all of his money to a government assisted and insincere religion, explores sexual activities with appliances, and is imprisoned. After being released from prison into a dystopian society in which music itself has been criminalized, he lapses into insanity.